A Hybrid Approach of VIKOR and Bi-Objective Decision Model for Emergency Shelter Location–Allocation to Respond to Earthquakes by Shaoqing Geng, Hanping Hou, Zhou Zhou

“…Minimizing the impact and consequences of earthquakes involves many decisions and disaster relief operations that should be optimized. A critical disaster management problem is to construct shelters with reasonable capacity in the right locations, allocate evacuees, and provide relief materials to them within a reasonable period. …”
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Research on the location decision-making method of emergency medical facilities based on WSR by Hao Wang, Peng Luo, Yimeng Wu

“…Abstract The need for emergency medical services increased drastically during disaster relief. Poor location selection of emergency medical facilities may harm the interests of healthcare workers and patients, leading to unnecessary waste of costs. …”
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Involvement of Social Media in Disaster Management during the Wenchuan and Ya`an Earthquakes by Li, Leah Xiufang

“…Social media is being increasingly utilized in disaster relief work to identify safety issues, locate displaced-victims, and seek or provide support for those who need help. …”
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Reliability prediction and evaluation of communication base stations in earthquake prone areas by Xueming Li, Yao Wei, Zheng Ming, Hao Cong, Xuanyu Zheng, Qihai Chang

“…Abstract One of the primary tasks for effective disaster relief after a catastrophic earthquake is robust communication. …”
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Solar Electric Vehicles as Energy Sources in Disaster Zones: Physical and Social Factors by Kenji Araki, Yasuyuki Ota, Anju Maeda, Minoru Kumano, Kensuke Nishioka

“…Depending on the climate, population density, and shading environment, the voluntary contribution of stored electricity in SEV is sufficient to provide disaster relief support.…”
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Secularity and Transformation of the Faith-Based Community: Ethnography of the Religious Charity of Baha’i in Macau by Yanchun Jing, Jiangang Zhu, Yongjing Han

“…Since the 1970s, religious charities in Chinese communities have gradually become public and rational, transforming from previously raising donations for the temples or disaster relief. Even in mainland China, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam all began to enter the secular society after the 1980s and gradually merged into local public life by providing public welfare. …”
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Development of a simplified negative pressure wound device by Zurovcik, Danielle Renee

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China’s disaster diplomacy in Southeast Asia by Gong, Lina

“…State-centricity enables rapid mobilization and deployment of resources and personnel through official channels for overseas disaster relief missions. Nevertheless, capacity limitations restrict the scope and modality of China’s involvement, and institutional constraints a ect its communication with the recipient country/organization. …”
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Evaluation of decision support system for disaster management using multi-criteria decision techniques: a case study of Alappuzha, Kerala by Pankaj Kant, Pavan Kumar Machavarapu, Anagha R Natha

“…The conditions that prevailed during the monsoon time, as well as concerns and challenges during disaster relief efforts, must first be investigated for the effective operation of these supply chain activities. …”
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A Novel Approach to Building a Heterogeneous Emergency Response Communication System by Janez Sterle, Miha Rugelj, Urban Sedlar, Luka Koršič, Andrej Kos, Peter Zidar, Mojca Volk

“…We explain the architecture and functional outline of an Advanced Emergency Response Communications System (A-ERCS), which was developed and integrated with professional, commercial, and ad hoc networks to provide survivable communications services and sensor-based applications to support public safety agencies in their day-to-day operation and disaster relief missions. Further, we present the results of a real-world pilot implementation, customized for fire fighter services in Slovenia, and discuss the outcomes of performance tests, showing how the proposed solution can be applied in public safety practice and how COTS technologies can be efficiently and reliably reused in this specific domain.…”
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Evaluation Model for Seismic Resilience of Urban Building Groups by Hao Ren, Chong Rong, Qinhu Tian, Weichao Zhang, Dan Shao

“…Then, we studied the quantitative relationship between external factors (i.e., disaster relief capacity, population density, and economic level) and the evaluation indicators of seismic resilience of urban building groups, and we proposed the kilometer grid coefficient. …”
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Rapid Flood Mapping and Evaluation with a Supervised Classifier and Change Detection in Shouguang Using Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 Optical Data by Minmin Huang, Shuanggen Jin

“…Moreover, all required data and data processing are simple, so it can be popularized in rapid flooding mapping in early disaster relief.…”
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Path Planning Based on NURBS for Hyper-Redundant Manipulator Used in Narrow Space by Jinjun Duan, Bingcheng Wang, Kunkun Cui, Zhendong Dai

“…Hyper-redundant manipulators with multiple degrees of freedom have special application prospects in narrow spaces, such as detection in small spaces in aerospace, rescue on-site disaster relief, etc. In order to solve the problems of complex obstacle avoidance planning and inverse solution selection of a hyper-redundant robot in a narrow space, a cubic B-spline curve based on collision-free trajectory using environmental edge information is planned. …”
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Smart Search System of Autonomous Flight UAVs for Disaster Rescue by Donggeun Oh, Junghee Han

“…In particular, UAVs are being heavily used in the field of disaster relief thanks to the fact that UAVs are becoming smaller and more intelligent. …”
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Proposition and Real-Time Implementation of an Energy-Aware Routing Protocol for a Software Defined Wireless Sensor Network by Muhammad Usman Younus, Saif ul Islam, Sung Won Kim

“…Such types of networks are used in various applications including smart cities, smart building, military target tracking and surveillance, natural disaster relief, and smart homes. However, the limited power capacity of sensor nodes is considered a major issue that hampers the performance of a WSN. …”
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1938 Kırşehir Earthquake (1938 YILI KIRŞEHİR DEPREMİ) by Sevilay ÖZER

“…Moreover, a nationwide disaster relief campaigns mobilized people to help the victims of earthquake. …”
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Radio Frequency over Fibre Optics Repeater for Mission-Critical Communications: Design, Execution and Test by Răzvan-George Bărtuşică, Mădălin Mihai, Simona Halunga, Octavian Fratu

“…One of the main objectives is to improve both the reaction time and the coordination between mission-critical practitioners, also called public protection and disaster relief users, that operate in emergency scenarios. …”
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Quantifying multi-regional indirect economic losses: An assessment based on the 2021 rainstorm events in China by Yuan Liu, Ying Li, Guofu Wang, Ge Gao, Yixiao Chen

“…A more detailed study is required to explore how to determine the appropriate levels of disaster relief, as well as a rational funding allocation mechanism.…”
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Estimating and Interpreting Fine-Scale Gridded Population Using Random Forest Regression and Multisource Data by Yun Zhou, Mingguo Ma, Kaifang Shi, Zhenyu Peng

“…For example, the data are crucial for epidemic control and natural disaster relief. In this study, the random forest model was applied to multisource data to estimate the population distribution in impervious areas at a 30 m spatial resolution in Chongqing, Southwest China. …”
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Uncertainty in Drought Identification Due to Data Choices, and the Value of Triangulation by Pius Borona, Friedrich Busch, Tobias Krueger, Philippe Rufin

“…Remaining ambiguities in drought occurrence could be resolved by complementing the quantitative analysis with ground-based information from key informants engaged in disaster relief, effectively formulating an ensemble approach to SPEI-based drought identification to aid decision making. …”
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